Acts 2:40 - King James 2000 And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this corrupt generation. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And [Peter] solemnly and earnestly witnessed (testified) and admonished (exhorted) with much more continuous speaking and warned (reproved, advised, encouraged) them, saying, Be saved from this crooked (perverse, wicked, unjust) generation. American Standard Version (1901) And with many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, Save yourselves from this crooked generation. Common English Bible With many other words he testified to them and encouraged them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation.” Catholic Public Domain Version And then, with very many other words, he testified and he exhorted them, saying, "Save yourselves from this depraved generation." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And with very many other words did he testify and exhort them, saying: Save yourselves from this perverse generation. |
My people, go you out of the midst of her, and deliver yourselves every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.
O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonah. And he left them, and departed.
Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I endure you? bring him here to me.
You serpents, you generation of vipers, how can you escape the judgment of hell?
Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
For I have five brothers; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
Watch therefore, and pray always, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.
And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he who was ordained of God to be the Judge of the living and dead.
And Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, exhorted the brethren with many words, and strengthened them.
When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.
And when he had gone through those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece,
Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.
And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified of the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening.
And Joseph, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of encouragement,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus,
Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God.
Therefore come out from among them, and be you separate, says the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
They have corrupted themselves, their blemish is not the blemish of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
That you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom you shine as lights in the world;
As you know how we exhorted and encouraged and charged every one of you, as a father does his children,
Take heed unto yourself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this you shall both save yourself, and them that hear you.
By Silas, a faithful brother unto you, as I regard, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.